NEW DELHI: Whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who won the Ramon Magsaysay award, on Wednesday said he was highly disappointed with the political interference in the administrative work of the country's premier health institution, AIIMS, and the PMO's response to it.

Y.S. RANACHANDIGARH : State of unemployed in Himachal Pradesh may have an indefinite past and imperfect present but, given the indulgence and thrust of the state government in skilling up programmes in association with the Wadhwani Foundation, it can surely look forward to a perfect future of unemployed. India grows young and most of the advanced countries are growing old, it provides an opportunity to us to become global talented skilled workforce. Hence, job creation has become the primary imperative for the country.

CHANDIGARH: The Dance Mafia Academy & Famous choreographer model & actor Ripanpreet Sidhu organised flash mob on healthy and nutritious life at sector 17. As many as 40 Students participated to promote fitness in general.

JALANDHAR: Niether the NRI Sabha is a representative body of Punjabi Diaspora not it has any legal authority to address the issues and concerns of Punjabi Diaspora.Sabha is simply an NGO which is being being run for the welfare of the NRIs belonging to Punjabi Diaspora and for the personal, political and economical interests of the office bearers of the Sabha.

CHANDIGARH : A Himachal Pradesh resident was arrested for allegedly smuggling fake currency here on Wednesday. The accused, who has been identified as 40-year-old Mohinder Singh, was caught carrying fake currency totalling `13,000.Mohinder, a resident of Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, was caught from the inter-state bus terminal (ISBT) in Sector 43. The police had laid a trap following a tip off about the accused.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s Food and Drugs Administration in order to curb the menace of spurious and substandard animal drugs carried a statewide joint raids in 6 districts of Punjab Amrisar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jaladhar, Ludhiana and Moga by deputing cross district teams of Drugs Inspectors and Zonal Licensing authorities on Saturday. Punjab’s Health & Family Welfare Minister, Sh Surjit K. Jyani, had earlier given directions to the officers of the Drug Administration to deal sternly with such violators.

By Arun Kumar WASHINGTON : As many as 39 US lawmakers have asked the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to change a policy requiring Sikhs and other players to remove their articles of faith, such as turbans, in international competition.